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bed the average height of human beings, and I believe in equality. It is your problem if you are not the size of the bed; it is not the problem of the bed."
But this has been done, in such a subtle way, with your whole life. Moses decides the Ten Commandments for you -- how can he decide? Jesus gives you the principles, in the Sermon on the Mount. Even principles which look so beautiful don't turn out to be beautiful in reality, because principles are principles, and life is a living phenomenon, continuously changing.
For example, Jesus says, "Do unto others what you would like them to do to you." Perhaps you may have never thought that there can be anything wrong in this principle. It is such a golden principle, so sweet, what can be wrong in it? Zarathustra says there is something wrong in it, although he had no idea of Jesus. But the principle is very much older than Jesus. Zarathustra was aware of the principle, and that there have been teachers before who have told to you, "Do unto others what you would like them to do to you."
Zarathustra says, "But remember, their tastes may be different." Nobody has thought about it -- their tastes may be different. You are saying, "Do unto others what you would like to be done to you." You are not giving freedom to the other person and his taste. In the first place, what you are doing he may not like. It is not necessarily true that your liking will be his liking too. And in the second place, how he responds will depend upon how he likes what you have done to him. It is unpredictable.
The principle looks very beautiful in words, but in actuality it will simply create more problems -- it has created.... All our religions and all our philosophies have created more problems for people than they have solved. They have not solved a single thing.
A commander is taking a great risk. He is playing with human beings, risking their lives according to his ideas and opinions. Who is he? From where does he have the authority? No man of understanding will be a man who commands. No man of understanding will try to mold your life, try to give your life a certain style, a certain character, a certain morality.
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